Improvement in umbrella tip-cups



A. DITTRIOH. Umbrella Tip-Cup.

No. 202,710. Patented April 23, 1878.

. iii-est UNITED STATEs PATENT OEEIcE.

ADOLPH DITTRIOH, OF ST. LUKES, ENGLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN UMBRELLA TIP-CUPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 202,710, dated April23, 1878; application filed February 12, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADOLPH DITTRICH, of St. Lukes, in the county ofMiddlesex, England, have invented anew and Improved Umbrella Tip-Cup;and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same.

As umbrellas and parasols are usually con structed, the tip-cup and itsspring require to be slid along the stick to their place on the handle,which involves the dismounting of the whole frame, if the tip-cup beapplied after the umbrella or parasol has been fitted up.

My invention relates to the construction and arrangement of partswhereby the tip-cup may be readily applied without difficulty or delay,and without requiring detachment of any portion of the frame of theumbrella or parasol.

In the annexed drawing, Figure 1 represents an external view of aspringtip-cup applied to an umbrella-stick according to my invention. Fig. 2represents a central longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 representsa similar section, the tip-cup being shown drawn back, as for releasingthe tips of the umbrella-ribs.

The tip-cup A is fitted to slide directly on the reduced portion 01 ofthe umbrella-stick, between two shoulders, b 0, formed, respectively, onthe stick B and handle 0. In order to mount the improved tip-cup in itsplace without sliding it along from the point or small end of the stick,the handle 0 is made separate from the stick B, (technically known asthe fit-up,) and united thereto by a screwjoint, 0. The tip-cup isprovided with a tubular extension, a, longer than the neck or reducedportion 01, so as to cover the upper shoulder a, and of a diameter tofit closely and slide upon the handle G, asshown. In

the annular space between this tubular extension a and the neck (1,which it incloses, a spiral spring, is located, which encircles the neckd, and abuts at one end against the shoulder a, and at the other endagainst a collar or neck, f, formed on the tubular extension at, betweenit and the cup A, and fitting on the neck 61 of the stick, so as tostrengthen the neck, and guide the cup in its sliding movement. Bylocating the spring g upon a neck smaller than the handle 0, thediameter of the tube a need not be larger than necessary for it to slideon the handle 0, and the spring tip-cup is thus made as neat inappearance as a tip-cup without a spring. The cup abuts against theshoulder b, and the whole cup is thus confined and works between the twoshoulders. The outer end of the tubular extension at is engraved orotherwise ornamented at i with a perforated or other design, and leftbright to imitate the ordinary band with which the handle is usuallyornamented, the rest of the tube a between this portion '5 and the cupproper being colored or painted to match the handle, so that at acursory glance the imitation band will appear to be altogether separatedfrom the cup-extension 00.

I am aware umbrella-sticks have been reduced in thickness at the lowerend to receive the springs of tip-cups, and I do not therefore claimsuch construction or combination.

What I claim is In combination with the stick B, part 01, screw 6, andthe detachable handle 0, the tipcup A, having the reduced portion f andextension a, the spiral spring g, acting against the shoulder c, and theneck d, which latter also abuts the shoulder 11 of the stick, as shownand described, for the purpose specified.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 17th day ofJanuary, 1878.

ADOLPH DITTRIGH.

Witnesses WM. CLARK, T. W. KENNARD.

